[NCLUG] MythTV Presentation on Feb. 12

[DJ Eshelman]

Though I've not tried this out myself, I've heard great things about

http://www.fiire.com/

they have a gyroscope based remote that I've seen demonstrated for LinuxMCE
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2176025602905109829

Personally, I think this is a great concept- a company creating hardware 
solutions for an open source software - very much the spirit of the thing :)

good luck!  Sorry I missed the demonstration- since I went to DirecTV HD 
with it's own DVR there's been little justification for MythTV/LinuxMCE 
- though I'd MUCH rather have that interface and flexibility.

So- the question is, does anyone know if it's possible to use DTV-HD 
with MythTV?  I was under the impression that it's not, but you never 
know- the DVRs HDDs at one time were encrypted linux drives, but I 
haven't ripped open my unit to find out...  So breaking the encryption 
wouldn't be very likely but if the same functions of the DVR could be 
somehow emulated so that DTV doesn't know the difference (I know, 
grasping at straws here).

To make matters worse- an increasing amount of content is locked out of 
the Component video outputs (HDMI only).

And along the lines of this topic- I'm wondering if anyone on this list 
works for Yellow Dog and would like to give a demonstration of 
installing YellowDog onto a PS3?

Have a good week everyone!

-DJ

Brian Wood wrote:
> dann frazier wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 01:50:33PM -0700, Paul Hummer wrote:
>>> I would actually like to use a remote control with my machine rather 
>>> than a keyboard (not so interested in having the internet on my 
>>> TV).  What remote controls could be used, and can I pick one up at 
>>> Best Buy?  Can I use a generic IR receiver with it?
>>
>> I ordered a prebuilt Hannibal system from tvease.net that came with a
>> Microsoft remote. I went to their site to find the model, but turns
>> out they've gone bankrupt... can't say I'm surprised based on my
>> experience.
>>
>> Any way, I'm pretty sure this is the remote:
>>   http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16880100851
>>
>> And I'm quite happy with it; though I really do need to make a Debian
>> swirl to replace the little windows logo...
>
> I think that's what is often referred to as the "MCE" remote.
>
> There were some instructions posted a while back as to how to replace 
> the M$ logo and "Microsoft" text with a MythTV logo.
>
> beww
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